redmike34

Haha.  Doesn't matter.  What Honda says goes...

I reckon there's some feeling of poetic justice in the Honda camp... even if it took 8 years to get it.

Ha.  Haven't voted since 1996, and don't think it'll change this year.  When you're a libertarian, you quickly come to the realization that, as much as a right to vote may mean, when you will only wind up voting for someone who doesn't have a chance of winning, there's no sense in voting.

Taking a class right now that covers the Cold War, and just got finished writing a paper about the containment of communism.  Seems that it's not out of my system yet...

So what does the 6 engine rule say about, "Hey, some fucking idiot just put me in the gravel and I lost a motor because of it?"

If the answer is "Tough shit," I foresee controversy ahead...

Maybe it's just that Jorge hates Italians?  Most, if not all, of his comments like this have been directed at Vale, Dovi, and Simo...

Eh... I'll worry about Hayden vs Rossi if Hayden actually finishes the race in front of Rossi tomorrow.  Remember we're still just talking about qualifying here... and during a weekend which has been pretty affected by weather.

If Barbera hadn't run Rossi off the track in Qatar, it's debatable if Hayden would have finished in front of Rossi.  Until I see a pattern of that happening, under other circumstances... I think it's too soon to talk about Hayden doing better than Rossi.

Jesus Christo, dude.  This is about expectation management.  You clearly expect a lot more from other people than I do... whether you actually have a logical reason to expect what you do or not is open to debate.  I don't expect ANYONE to 'be adult,' because while most people can do it, my life experience has clearly indicated to me that it is not reasonable to expect that of everyone, all the time.  In the case of a few people, mostly not.  Not really a big deal to me.  It's a 'Puritan's prayer' sort of issue...

You can laugh off the comparison to rap music, but I would submit to you that Glenn Beck is actually in the same business that Dee Jay Jazzy who-the-fuk-ever is.  They are in the business of entertaining people.  Glenn Beck is not a part of the political process--he's a glorified fukkin deejay and crappy author.  Both he and your garden-variety rapper make a helluva lot of money doing what they do, and one of the reasons that they do is because they either foment or aggravate negative emotions in people.  So... I don't know what to tell you dude.  I didn't make the rules of human nature, and I'm not a psychologist (aka pseudoscientist), so I can't pretend to logically explain to you the whys behind what people will pay for to entertain themselves.  I just accept it.  But to me, there's as much logic behind blaming Glenn Beck for violence against politicians as there is, say, behind blaming Slayer for teenagers ritually sacrificing each other, or killing themselves, or whatever else the PMRC was on about back in the 1980s (as I just dated myself).

Whatever dude.  We'll just agree to disagree.

Glenn Beck is a pompous, self-righteous, blowhard melodramatist.  Despite that, his views at least occasionally do make sense.  I'd say at least as often as Arianna Huffington's, but I digress.  What Glenn Beck does is absolutely not new--this has been going on since America was born, and the Founding Fathers decided to grant the right to all idiots to say whatever they want to, as the following article illustrates:

http://online.wsj.co...Opinion_LEADTop

I didn't know LBJ actually had a sense of humor before reading that...

In any case, I'm absolutely comfortable with anything Beck says or does, provided it's legal, because I'm pretty sure that I'm a well-enough adjusted person to not, say, go shoot up a Congresswoman's entourage because of something he or anyone else says or does.  I'm pretty convinced that roughly 99.8% of all people in this country are as well.  So, the idea of curtailing the freedoms we all enjoy based on the .2% of us who are too irresponsible to handle them does not sit well with me.  Burn this idiot at the stake in public and let that be a lesson for all.  Don't take the coward's way out and change our way of life based on the .2%...

If anyone in Congress actually had any courage, they'd go do exactly what Giffords was doing--go out and speak directly to their constituents in an informal setting--right away, to show that they are servants of the people and will not be cowed by events like this...  In fact, I'd vote for someone who did that even if I didn't agree with their political views, because that is what leadership is in my book.